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| 'Plan of the University and City of Oxford', surveyed by Isaac Taylor, engraved by George Anderton, this copy published by William Jackson, 1751. Held by the Bodleian Library and digitised on Cabinet. |
On 3rd February 1750 the following advertisement appeared in Aris's Birmingham Gazette:
This day is published, Price Five Shillings-- on two sheets of Imperial paper, A new plan of Oxford, from an accurate Survey taken in 1750 [...].*1*
George Anderton was a Birmingham engraver. Between about 1740 and 1750 he resided on a premises on Temple Street, not far from the junction with Temple Row.*1*
It is also noted (without a source) that Anderton attempted type founding and, with the employment of Samuel Caslon (brother of the Cradley-born typefounder William Caslon), that he produced 'a little specimen of Great Primer - Roman and Italic - in 1753.*1a*
Anderton apprenticed Robert Hancock in 1745 for £30,*2* Thomas Broomhall in 1756 for £21, and Matthew Darby in 1757 for £40.*3*
Notes
*1* Joseph Hill, The Book Makers of Old Birmingham (Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1907), p. 27.
*1a* Joseph Hill, The Book Makers of Old Birmingham (Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1907), p. 28.
*2* Apprenticeship of Robert son of John Hancock to George Anderton engraver of Birmingham £30, 28 January1745, National Archives, IR/1/17 fol. 184.
*3* Birmingham print apprenticeships: https://bookhistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/warwickshire.html.